April theme day: Red

As I mentioned before, Friedrich Ebert memorial houses a splendid exhibition mainly showing early Weimar years caricatures. This installation shows you the way Friedrich Ebert, first president of the republic, used to be ridiculed: Whereas former kings and emperors had had a sceptre and a golden orb as insignia, an umbrella and a pumpkin were used to depict and devalue the new rulers from the – red – workers’ movement.